Illinois has terrible politics but genuinely surprised by Pritzker.
Unless they’re techbros which generally have fascist leanings, Billionaires are generally international rather than national bourgeoisie and that means that they are generally more committed to keeping the wheels on a bit longer and looting over timescales of centuries, not years.
Is this an increase of what state usually gives workers already? I would expect state workers get more than that.
It’s 40 hours or 5 days a year for most people. Better than nothing but still lower than pretty much every other country
Meatball Ron vs Meat Locker JB let’s go! 2028 maybe.
it’s both tragic and funny that the last people to notice this isn’t working are the same people with all the leverage to do anything about it.
Quite a few realise early, they’ve read Wealth of Nations if not Capital. but if you’re committed to the system and believe it’s good, the fix looks more like adding another set of epicycles rather than a new system. These people genuinely believe that every crisis can be solved with a few Social Democratic reforms and kicking the can down the road 50 years 20 years 5 Years 9 months
